That reminds me, man I miss the Geek Squad.
In my day, I recruited all the nerds and such that were being picked on to come hang out with me and others that the cruel society rejected for whatever reason (In my case, mostly the fact that I didn't "get" music, music is still just noise to me). We were passively utilitarianist, helping others out whenever asked to, and pretty aggressive against any would-be assailant. Strength in numbers was the motto and fortunately that alone kept most of the pricks at bay. We only needed to resort to violence twice actually, both times after school hours. A common issue arose when some of us would separate after school and any stragglers were basically ganged up on and beaten up.
The first time we used our numbers in a violent act was out of self defense. I myself, and 4 other colleagues were attacked a short ways away from my house by 3 particular persons that had been repeatedly threatening the group. We held our own against them until a casual driver stopped their car to halt the dispute. The following weeks, the same 3 decided to gang up on other members of the group who were mostly alone. I suggested it was time for an act of unnecessary brutality.
That's when this particular scenario happened. We decided that all of us would get together after school, set up a trap and then beat the everliving stuff out of those loving starfishs. The first two days did not work out though, the 3 pricks never showed up which was unusual seeing as it was a regular route they walked through after school. On the third day, they showed up, the bait was 2 of my colleagues simply chatting, seemingly oblivious. The rest of us hid in an alleyway not too far behind. We couldn't see where the three guys were but we got a slight signal from our two colleagues that the three targets had arrived and were heading for them. When the three aproached my two friends, they began the typical shove 'n threat crap bullies usually do. It quickly escalated with a few well placed remarks, and then just as the fight was about to break out, myself and the rest of the group (we were 11 in all) sprung out and started fighting them. One of the pricks ran off immediately, the two others remained and stayed their ground. One of them was pinned so fast I think I blinked and missed it, I can't remember exactly how many people were sitting on top of the guy. The remaining guy gave some shoves, shoves ave way to weak punches, and punches gave way to desperate flailing. I was the one fighting him along with my good friend Josh for a small while, but then Josh took the initiative and punched the prick in the eye so hard you could hear his eyeball crunching under the pressure. The bully, I almost pitied him at this point, fell to the ground and started crying as Josh punched him repeatedly. Finally, Josh lifted the balling guy off the ground, promptly took his head and slammed it against the hard, red brick wall of the nearby building, leaving a visible red stain on the concrete lining in the brickwork.
Yeah we weren't bothered much after that, and we didn't get into much trouble seeing as the 3 guys had their dignity to with-hold, and it's hard blaming 11 nerds for something unexpected like that. Go ahead and speculate this is fake, but it did happen and looking back on it now I feel more and more discouraged with the educational system and how it handles the students. Not the geeks being picked on, but rather what it does for those bullies, whom are ultimately cast aside in the grand scheme of things after having no doubt gone through a considerable amount of stuff through their lives.
